#activity

No real blood flows in the veins of the knowing subject constructed by Locke, Hume, and Kant, but rather the diluted extract of reason as a mere activity of thought. ↗

— Wilhelm Dilthey

#blood #constructed #diluted #extract #flows

Humour is by far the most significant activity of the human brain. ↗

— Edward de Bono

#brain #far #human #human brain #humour

The rest of the world needs the US economy and financial system to recover in order for it to revive. We remain at the center of global economic activity with financial and trade ties to every region of the globe. ↗

— Timothy Geithner

#center #economic #economic activity #economy #every

Enjoyment is not a goal, it is a feeling that accompanies important ongoing activity. ↗

— Paul Goodman

#activity #enjoyment #feeling #goal #important

The task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility and evil with activity. ↗

— Maria Montessori

#child #confound #does #educator #evil

True enjoyment comes from activity of the mind and exercise of the body; the two are ever united. ↗

— Wilhelm von Humboldt

#activity #body #comes #enjoyment #ever

As best I can tell there was no advance warning of the attack on the World Trade Center in 1993, which was the first significant foreign terrorist activity in the U.S. No tip-offs that it was coming. ↗

— Bobby Ray Inman

#advance #attack #best #center #coming

I pay a lot of attention to how things are done and the whole activity of building something is interesting. ↗

— Donald Judd

#attention #building #done #how #i

Many people and governments share the mistaken belief that science, with new, ingenious devices and techniques, can rescue us from the troubles we face without our having to mend our ways and change our patterns of activity. This is not so. ↗

— Henry W. Kendall

#belief #change #devices #face #governments

I don't think that what's going on in Bosnia is political activity. It's partly political, but it's partly atavistic as well. ↗

— John Keegan

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